Red Wheel Sites

The Kilmarnock & Troon Railway  Opened 1812 as a horse-drawn 4 ft-gauge plateway – the first in Scotland to convey passengers. Converted 1846 to a contemporary railway.

Northern end of a cross-London tram link showing, between the tracks, the unusual conduit power supply

Completed in 1851 by the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway

Erected over the Union Canal at Fountainbridge in 1906. Relocated in 1923 whan the canal was cut back from Port Hopetoun to the Lochrin Basin

Britain’s last substantial 2 ft gauge industrial railway opened 20 November 1919 to transport casting sand from Double Arches sand quarries.

This 1938 Modern Movement building held offices for the tram depot that stood behind it, where electric trams were stabled until 1956.

Site of ‘Mulberry’ harbour construction and start of the ‘PLUTO’ fuel pipeline – both vital to the success of the 1944 Normandy landings

Opened 1846 as the Lincoln Terminus of the Midland Railway - the first to reach the city. Re-named 1950 and closed 1985

the best surviving of the basins, wharves and stables of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal - a 32 mile counour canal designed by Hugh Baird. Opened 1822: re-opended 2002 

Opened 15 September 1830. Terminus of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the world's oldest surviving railway station